Listening to the OKC scanner and not feeling really good about tonight - I'm up the road (I-44) in Missouri, and not scheduled to work tonight. Feel like I might as well take a shower and put some comfy clothes on to go work in the middle of the night, days off be damned.

I do love the officers requesting wreckers for totaled cars - yeah. Right. How about you just use a fire truck to move it out of the way?

Glendale:tinfoil-hat maggie: megalynn44: ZeroCorpse: If it were me, I'd get the fark out of New Orleans, Oklahoma, Kansas, or anywhere in tornado alley or hurricane zones that are below farking sea level. I'd also not live anywhere near the banks of the Mississippi River, or near the parts of California that are set ablaze every damned year.

This is retarded. There is nowhere you can live where you will be guaranteed safe from natural disaster. Storms, fire, earthquakes, landslides, flooding, blizzard, tsunami, yada yada yada. I get massive eye roll when people spout this "just move" bullshiat.

So very true and correct.

Well, there's places where you should expect disasters on a recurring basis and others where it's not a routine thing. But that's about it, given enough time something will probably happen eventually.

That's all I'm saying. If it's routine, why put up with that? What's so great about these places that people risk life and everything they have for them?

ForrestRump:Serious question: If this area of the country is constantly plagued with Tornado's why do they still build above ground? I realize underground structures are not very aesthetic but building above ground and having this happen seems unnecessary.

close to surface water tables

Your answer makes perfect sense. Thanks for responding. But don't they have tornado shelters which are underground? I am not suggesting reverse high rises or anything. I don't know, just battling the bad news with possible solutions that have most likely been hammered out long before I came around.

It comes down to cost, a wood frame structure, isn't cheap but still one of the cheapest ways to build, steal beam frame are more expensive yet safer but a storm like this would take it down, a full concrete and steal construction is very expensive but could make it except for windows and such. Building underground is very expensive there.

We had some heavy sustained rains that made driving hell. But other than that, it was a non-event for us.

It is currently windy & muggy as hell outside. You can feel it brewing (dogs are going nuts, too), but hopefully, things won't be severe by the time they get here. Counting on the cap & evening cooling to nip it in the bud.

Russ Feingold's Brass Balls: Same here, and I don't have very much confidence in the LR forecasters... a big chunk of my apartment complex already burned down this week, I could only imagine another tornado passing through here. *shudder*